Tor wrote:Killer Cyborg wrote:Many psychics are in the employee of the CS. It would be as simple as, "Private, can you sense if that thing is a mutant?"
See Aura can't distinguish a mutation from an illness, though, so you could just as easily be detecting hemophilia.
If only the CS had doctors on their payroll, which could figure that kind of thing out.
Although, illness itself is a rarity in the CS.
Not to mention that new mutations occur all the time and may not necessarily be associated with any powers.
The CS doesn't like mutants at all, whether or not they have powers.
Ideally if the CS is building profiles on people, it might estabilsh info like this when constructing one. In terms of casual discrimination from the populace (keeping in mind that even minor psionics don't need chips in them) it probably wouldn't happen though. If a guy with a mutation was running for public office, sure, rumors would slip out, but unless there's a reason to be interacting with CS military or other psychics who might have info on the person, gasual gossip about mutations wouldn't cause much everyday problems for the usual citizen.
That would depend on the commonness of lynch mobs and such.
Killer Cyborg wrote:Seems like a bizarre and random thing to insist on.If one single thing can't disqualify a class on its own then it shouldn't be able to do it at all, unless we can define some specific combination of traits which would (for other classes too, if they had that combination) also disqualify them.Why not?each component on its own is fine, no rational I can see for the combination counteracting humanity.
There needs to be a basis of explanation for why the synergy of 2 traits would create a new status, haven't seen it. From my perspective, this combo qualification is bizarre/random.
Say you have a 30' garden hose.
Now say you trim 10' off of one end. Do you still have a garden hose?
Now say you trim 10' off of the other end. Do you still have a garden hose?
Now say you trim 9'11.9" off of what's left, and throw that away. Do you still have a garden hose?